Welcome to my site.
Please let me introduce myself, my name is Mark Wright and for more than eight years now I have been in the real estate business, mainly within the UK, where I became an office manager with a leading estate agency group. After moving to Bookavets near Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria in March 2007 I did not work for several months, then for 10 months I worked for one of the largest real estate agencies in Veliko Tarnovo, helping train the English speaking Bulgarian agents, who deal with the International clients.
I am now working independantly locating properties for buyers, who are looking to relocate around Veliko Tarnovo, Resen, Hotnitsa areas. Working on their behalf, I can access far more properties and select only ones suitable to my clients thus cutting down time spent looking at non suitable abodes.
I live here with my wife Sally, and son Shane, (our daughter Teri, lives in Swindon Wiltshire.) in a large village called Resen, just north of Veliko Tarnovo. We enjoy a stress free lifestyle that we could only imagine whilst living in the UK., long hot sunny summers and cold snowy winters.
There are quite a few Brit’s within a few kilometers of us, but mostly we talk to our Bulgarian neighbours, slowly, as we do not speak fluent Bulgarian yet! The local people are very friendly and will often pass you small gifts like fruit and Rakia (local home made whiskey) We for our part return their friendship with home made cakes etc.
Our British friends are great, we meet up quite often to help each other with new products found, or general information we have gathered. Sometimes just for a coffee or beer!
I have found that many British come here looking to buy property, but do not know where to start. I have a few key questions that I like to ask, this gives me a real insight to what they are looking to achieve. As I have been through the process and now know the pitfalls, hopefully I can save others the heartache and stress of searching for the right property.
I can help with all the details required in buying property here, from setting up bank accounts to opening your company, this is required when you buy a house with land. I can source any kind, from land/apartment/house/office even hotels.
Let me know how I can help you.
If you have any questions about my service I can provide you with names and email address's of previous clients who would be happy to tell you more about me and the level of service provided.
Please read all the "post's" on my blog, at the bottom of each page you can click a button for "older post's" this just means "go to the next page". You should find a lot of useful information contained here. If you feel the need for anything else please let me know and I will be happy to oblige.
Here in Bulgaria, many estate agents offer thier properties as "renovated", please be aware that this often means that it has been emptied and painted white inside and out. If you purchase this kind of house, you will still need to install kitchen units, a bathroom suite, new windows and maybe internal stairs.
Read the details very carefully as often downstairs rooms are often described as bedrooms, when we from the UK, would use the downstairs rooms as a lounge and maybe a dining room. Unless the details state there is a particular item there, assume that there is not. Always ask before you go to visit.
Traditionally Bulgarians use an outside kitchen during the summer, long hot days and evenings encourage you to eat outside, maybe under your own grape vines, and only sleep inside at night. During the cold winter months, it is common that only one room would be used for cooking, eating, watching TV, and sleeping. This is because it is expensive for the people to heat the whole house.
If the details say three rooms upstairs, there is usually enough room to put a set of internal stairs up into the hallway. The rooms will be two bedrooms and a small one suitable for a shower room, it may be possible to have a bath.
Most British people have a wood burner installed, attached to radiators around the house, so you burn wood which costs 40 Leva per cubic metre, the avarage usage for a winter is about 12 - 15 cubic metres. Also coal brickettes are good to burn, they cost 5 Leva per 20 kilo bags. We use this method as the electric is more expensive in the winter months. It is nice to see a living flame.
However, with the summer approaching fast now, we are looking forward to sitting outside in the evenings and having some BBQ's.
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